Vegetable - Ginger - Other Tips

Ginger

1. Selection :
   • Young ginger is fragrant, pungent, fleshy and juicy with a mild spicy taste. Whereas old ginger is fibrous and almost dry and tends to be spicier than its young counterpart.
   • Fresh roots should feature heavy in hand, stout, juicy, has grey-yellow peel and free from dark spots. Dried, powdered, or ground root can also be found in these stores; however, they may contain significantly decreased levels of volatile oils like gingerols.
2. Storage :
   • Fresh root can be kept in the refrigerator for up to a month or so. Powdered/ground ginger should be stored in the refrigerator in airtight containers.
3. Ginger + Others :
   • Fresh or dried ginger root along with garlic, cilantro, onion, tomato, cumin and mustard-seeds made to a flavourful curry paste which is then added to variety of vegetable, meat and curry/soup preparations.
   • The herb root is also used in the preparation of mango, lemon and spondias (ambara in India) pickles.
   • Fresh root can be used in the preparation of variety of spicy snacks, candies, and ginger bread in the food industry.
   • Ginger tea is a popular drink in many Asian countries.
4. Usage :This vegetable is used in different ways of Cooking and even in more areas as a different substitute. Read more >>
   
   

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Vegetable - Ginger - Nutrition Facts

Ginger

Vitamins & Minerals :

Vitamins	Vitamins available are Folates, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Pyridoxine, Vitamin-A, Vitamin-C, Vitamin-E and Vitamin-K.
Minerals	Minerals available are Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus and Zinc.

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Vegetable - Ginger - Health Benefits

Ginger

1. Flatulence/wind :Pound a piece of fresh ginger and boil with a cup of water and add a little honey to taste. Drink it twice a day to let off the wind trapped in the intestinal tract.
2. Digestive disorder : Mix a teaspoonful of young ginger juice with one teaspoonful each of fresh lime juice and fresh mint juice with some honey to taste in a glass of water. Drink to relieve heartburn, indigestion, nausea and vomiting. Especially helpful after a big meaty meal.
3. Fatigue :Slice a piece of ginger into disks and boil it with a big glass of water. Add a piece of cinnamon bark, bring to boil and then cover it for about half an hour till it turns to golden colour. Drink it to relieve fatigue when recovering from fever. It also relieves muscle pain and soreness.
4. Medicinal values :
   • Ginger root slices, boiled in water with lemon or orange juice, and honey, is a popular herbal drink in ayurvedic medicine to relieve common cold, cough, and sore throat.
   • Its extraction is used as a vehicle to mask bitterness and after-taste in traditional ayurvedic preparations.
   • Gingerols increase the motility of the gastrointestinal tract and have analgesic, sedative, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties. Studies have shown that it may help reduce nausea caused by motion sickness or pregnancy and may relieve migraine.
5. Morning sickness : A teaspoonful of young ginger juice with some honey will also help alleviate morning sickness, sea or motion sickness, dizziness and even nausea caused by chemotherapy or anaesthesia.
6. Anti-coagulant :Add ginger in most of your cooking or add a teaspoonful of young ginger juice in your beverages to enjoy the anticoagulant properties of ginger. It helps make blood platelets less sticky which in turn reduces your risk of atherosclerosis.
7. Impotency :Believe it or not! Mix a teaspoonful of young ginger juice to a half-boiled egg and a teaspoonful of honey. Take this concoction on an empty stomach, every night for a month. It helps to counter impotency, premature ejaculation and increase sperm count.
8. Cold :Cut up a small piece of old ginger and boil it with a small cup of pure drinking water. Add some green tea leaves if you wish. Strain and drink when hot. Effective if you also have fever resulting from the cold. You may also drink this concoction if you feel a cold coming.
9. Cough : Drink ginger juice with raw honey three to four times a day for a bad throat. It is soothing and helps clear up phlegm. If it’s a dry cough, use the young ginger. If there is phlegm, use the old ginger.
10. Inflammation : The anti-inflammatory (gingerols) and anti-oxidant properties in ginger help relieve various inflammatory disorders like gout, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It provides substantial relief in pain caused by inflammation and help decrease swelling and morning stiffness.
11. Aphrodisiac effect :A natural aphrodisiac, this might be the better substitute to viagra! Drink hot ginger tea (by mixing ginger juice, hot water and raw honey) after a not-too-heavy meal and see it work!
12. Menstruation disorder :Pound a piece of young ginger and boil with a cup of water and add a little honey to taste. Drink it hot two or three times a day for a month. The pain-relieving and anti-cramping compounds in ginger effectively help relieve painful menstruation cramps (dysmenorrhoea). In the absence of menstruation in women in the reproductive age (amenorrhoea), this concoction can also help induce menstruation.
13. Pain killer : Ginger juice makes an excellent pain killer, even when applied externally. In headache, apply ginger juice to the forehead. With toothache, apply it to the external area either on the cheek or jaw area.
14. Fever :young ginger brings down body temperature as in the case of fever. Whereas the old (dryer) ginger brings up the body temperature as in the case of a cold and suitable during winter. When going on an extended juice feasting,
15. Other benefits :
    • May prevent motion sickness.
    • Can help to quell nausea
    • Ginger wine may help to relieve menstrual cramps.
    • May reduce inflammation of arthritis and lupus.

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Vegetable - Ginger - Beauty Tips

Ginger

1. Weight Loss using ginger and honey :A combination of ginger and honey will give good weight loss.
   • Crush ginger to a paste.
   • Take 2 tsp of this ginger paste.
   • Add 2 tsp of honey.
   • Mix well.
   • Have this 1 time a day.
2. Mustard-Ginger Foot Bath :

   Ingredients :

   • 1-1/2 Tbsp mustard powder (or freshly powdered mustard seeds)
   • 2 tsp finely grated peeled fresh ginger

   Process :

   • Combine the two in a basin that fits your feet (or your bathtub) with enough hot water to cover the tops of your feet. Stir around and then submerge your feet. Let your feet soak for 15-20 minutes, swishing the water around occasionally (and adding more warm water, if your foot bath becomes too cold). Rinse with warm water and pat dry.

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Vegetable - Ginger - Allergies

Ginger

1. Side effects :
   • Raw or candied ginger may irritate oral tissue and other mucous membranes.
   • Ginger stimulates many secretary glands in the body; it has "sialogogic" effect (increases salivary juice secretion in the mouth) on salivary glands; increase bile secretion and its release. Therefore, the root may be contraindicated in patients with history of gallstones.
   • Ginger root is also known to potentiate the toxicity of anti-coagulant drug warffarin, resulting in severe bleeding.
2. Caution :
   • Do not give ginger juice to young children, or honey to infants!
   • Fresh ginger juice is very potent as it contains high levels of active enzymes and substances. Only a teaspoonful is needed to feel its efficacy in treating disorders.
   • Ginger juice is spicy, so go slow with it if you are not used to its spiciness. The side effects of taking ginger juice could be flatulence and uncontrollable burping. This doesn’t mean that the juice causes gas, but rather that the consumption causes the body to release trapped gas in your intestinal tract.
   • More does not mean better. Ginger does contain moderate amounts of oxalate. Individuals with a history of oxalate-containing kidney stones should avoid over-consuming ginger or its juice.

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Vegetable - Ginger

Ginger

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About the Vegetable :Ginger or ginger root is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family (Zingiberaceae). Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal. The distantly related dicots in the Asarum genus have the common name wild ginger because of their similar taste.Pungent, spicy ginger root is a popular root herb of culinary as well as medicinal importance. The root, which composes unique phyto-chemical compounds, still finds a special place in many traditional Indian and Chinese medicines disease preventing and health promoting properties.The spicy root is actually an underground rhizome of small herb plant belonging to the Zingiberaceae family, of the genus: Zingiber.Its root features knotty finger-like projections that grow downward from the ground surface. Fresh raw root has a silver gray outer surface. Cut sections feature creamy white, yellow, or red-colored crunchy flesh depending upon the variety. The root often contains fibrils running through its center, especially in over-maturede size size roots. Ginger has pungent, spicy and aromatic smell that comes from essential oils and phenolic compounds such as gingerols and shogaols in the root.

Scientific / Binomial name : Zingiber officinale.

Popularly Known as :Adrak, Alla, Shunti,Inji, Allam,

Usage :

• Fresh or dried ginger root along with garlic, cilantro, onion, tomato, cumin and mustard-seeds made to a flavourful curry paste which is then added to variety of vegetable, meat and curry/soup preparations.
• The herb root is also used in the preparation of mango, lemon and spondias (ambara in India) pickles.
• Fresh root can be used in the preparation of variety of spicy snacks, candies, and ginger bread in the food industry.
• Ginger tea is a popular drink in many Asian countries.
• Ginger root is available in many varieties See more varieties
in the market.

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